In the United States, approximately 1000 people continue to die each year in encounters with police—more than in any other industrialised nation. My America is an archive of, and memorial to, the victims of these encounters. The photographs, taken at locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, create a quiet but chilling critique of the contemporary United States. The scale of the book attests to the scale of the problem, yet Matar asks us to remember that these are individuals. The black and white photographs are of city parks, shopping malls, parking lots, mobile homes, empty fields and roadside highways; by photographing these banal landscapes Matar declares that what happened at the locations matters, and questions the link between landscape and memory. A small grant enabled her to make six road trips over four years, photographing in states with the highest numbers and rates per capita of lethal encounters—Texas, California, Oklahoma and New Mexico—travelling alone on highways, back roads and city streets. After photographing, she spent two further years researching the legal outcome of each case, resulting in a book designed with respect for the victims but also rich with information about the structural reasons these events continue to occur.